Even voorstellen - Gilla Band - ‘PUGNELLO’
25/09 (rough trade/konkurrent)
‘PLACEHOLDER’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qukks60Vwfs

LIVE Thu  21/01/2027 Le Botanique - Brussels, Belgium
Gilla Band are happy to announce their brand new album ‘Pugnello’ released on the 25th September 2026  on Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded from 2022 - 2026 across three studios, Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin, the album was produced by Gilla Band & it was recorded and mixed by Daniel. Fox.

The band have also announced 2 special intimate UK shows, one at The ICA (London) where they’ll be performing in the round, and The iconic White Hotel in Manchester ahead of its closure in January. You can pre-order the record HERE to gain access to exclusive pre-sale for these shows.

Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet — vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner — have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way. Across 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, 2019’s The Talkies, and 2022’s Most Normal, the band perfected a vision that wasn’t quite post-punk, wasn’t quite noise-rock, wasn’t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them.

In the four years since Most Normal, each member embarked on other artistic endeavors. Kiely fostered a newfound love of painting, Faulkner played drums for Lankum on the road, Fox became an increasingly in-demand producer guiding ascendant acts like Sprints, Lambrini Girls, and Mandy, Indiana, while Duggan Borges launched his solo project the Null Club with collaborations featuring Mandy, Indiana’s Valentine Caulfield, the Horrors’ Faris Badwan, Miss Grit, and Brooklyn MC Elucid. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello, but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.

Dara on Placeholder “In this track I try to analyse my mental quirks by exploring my comfort distractions. Reverting back to childhood nostalgia – as an escape. The memories seeping into my day-to-day adult life. Representing personal mental health behaviours via outdated pop culture such as the anxious tension set by Davina McCall’s silence when announcing a Big Brother eviction, or the fight or flight that Harold Lloyd surely experienced when holding on to a clock for dear life, and all for our entertainment.

I mention Power Rangers at the end of this. It was another comfort vice. They were a huge thing for me as a child. I remember I was at some sort of Christian summer camp when I was about 6 and was asked what I want to be when I grow up. I said “a Power Ranger”. I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that they didn’t exist and it is not a profession worth pursuing. I’ve never forgiven them for that.

“I’m injecting a lethal dose of nothing. I’m blaring a dangerous amount of Coldplay” …. True story.

Album Track listings
The Angelus

Placeholder

Alogia

Three Hands Clapping

Jacobsons

The Megazord

Computer Sadness

Giraffe

Crisp Pop

The Gallop